New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-10
LAwLESs CALIFORNIA.
rusyr MURDERS IN FIVE DAYs-To TEST
THE SHORT HAUL CLAUSE.

HYY8EE MURDEuS IN DAIS-AV A-~N
THE SHORT HAUL CLAUSE.
fBY TELEGRAPH THx rRIsusA
rp.Ncrsco. July s.-Three murders in five
"a .hown that the old lawlessness is not
49, :, San Francisco, an that criminals hav q
III. f.ar Of courts when they SEQ cold-blooded
-,.r.r. defying the laws tor four or five years
M. .hrsa murders were all aggravated cases
% than premeditated. One was the revenge OF
ssn,.l. magnetic healer upon an old Australian
=. IN. foolish enough.t0 live with her Tor -ew
III. She has been in San Quentin and expects
n,ove that the death of her victim was due TO
aoctors and not to the pistol bullet. The
.ord was the assassination OF sergeant
S.nsr at Preside Barracks. by drunken private'
.ho fancied he had been aggrieved by MS oihcer'
The third was the outgrowth OF quafrei oe'"oo"
a fro department messenger ana speciai Ionoo"a"'
%sa van who was killed was Char.es Kelly, who
, ~ Years managed the Baldwin Theatre under
Macurs and who took charge when Mcguire went
-, ue had mauy friends in tine theatrical pro-
fession.
TbeSoathern Pa cfc gers are consideringevery-
thing in their pc wer to stimulate travel 70 Caiior
MIA They have reduced the overland rates hea'l'!'
Tins forcing other companies to make corres'o"u
ing reductions. Great preparations are oe'he nA"e
IN entertain the thousands of Eastern tourists tua
49,. h,;ld,ry in all Southern California resorts,
rhus snecaI efforts will. be made to secure visitors
c. Central and Northern California towns Inc
povmond excursion parties will alternate between
,hs RAYMOND Hotel at Pasadena, and the new Dei
Monte, at Monterey.
u;s,xpected that tho next case to settle where
the Southern Pacific is violating the Interstate
Iavv will soon be made. The company had ordered
of
,he long and short haul clause still suspended
The Ataut tic and Pacific has issued similar orders.
Roth roads are anxious that the validity OF the
clause should be tested.
pr.A. J. Bowie, ST.. died this week at the age of
,.,.,tv.two Years He came Of good Maryland
stock entered the United States Navy as assistant
roson and came to California in 40 as one OF the
committees to select sites for the navy yara and
marine hosnital He lived here almost continuously
since then In the practice of bis profession as sur
econ he vas very skilfu. Three of his sons are
physicians of this city.
James C. Seymour, one of the managers of the
California Athletic Club has been missing for more
than n week 1t leaked out this week that about
s7OO Of the clubs money also gone. Seymour
is an Australian who has always borne an excel
liant re,utatiou His friends claim he has committed
suioide as he left letter announcing that he would
kill himself The club is composed OF many
wealthy men who pay literally for their sport but
gevmour lost all his money in ontsioe athletic
speculatons.
Trace Church, which has the wea'thiest conGre-
xation of any in the city, has just been newly dec
grated In Byzantine style The most striNlng
features are the fresco Of the nave ana the pahei
ing of the walls the rich Oriental borders ana inc
lavish gildings.
twelve relatives and friends are now In the
Yosemite. MIR. Shepard's party travel IN prlvate
car, and expect to remain several months III oouth-
ern Calliorn'a.
society at Santa Cruz the Fourth. aud no less
than i've hops were held at the various hotels DUR
ing the evening
The California Local Guard, in camp at Healds-
burg, sonoma County hsve nad III or.a .h no no
weather of San Francisco. number OF men were
overcome One was denented two were CROWNED
by going in bathing when overheated'
Making the desert blossom is no figure of speech
great Colorado desert at Indo the finest are
now ripe fully a month before they will mature IN
otter parts of the State. Ih'sls the result OF
irrigation from artesian wells. The railroad com
pany is driving wells near lndlo in order to demon
strate to settler the practicabty OF redeemlng the
desert. SO long regarded as worth ess
A company backed by Los Angeles capitalists
propose To zig canals Wy WITH tuo N"'cio va
tile kerneyvef aud Walker Basin Creek may be
brought upon large tract OF 100000 acres IN Kern
County near Bakersfield. The land has long beeD
known as a weed patch" and as it is in the
thermal belt there is question that it wall pro-
duce all citrus fruits
p The State Mneralogist has gone to Southern Cal
ifornis to investigate the petroleum discoveries
recently reported.
The salm on pack on the Columbia pro misses to be
very light the latest reports SHOWING that Only
100000 cases packed M to July TO- The
April run of salmon did not take place this year
so that the main dependence will be on the July
run.